figured something out probably video actually is bad for understanding things that have happened more often than not
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at the same time, videos are really not complete evidence; they suppress information and elide context
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Blake was repeatedly shot in the back . . . maybe carrying a knife, after someone reported a violent rape (not depicted) Floyd died while a cop kneeled on him . . . with vast quantities of fentanyl in his system (not depicted)
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I'm not offering a judgment about any of these cases per se Rather just want to highlight that in every case the immediate public reaction is based entirely on rapidly-available video that is evaluated exclusively on its own merits sans any diagram analogue
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Video is incomplete, moves very quickly online without context, and as audiovisual information is much more evocative that prose is difficult to criticize So Expect lots of dumb decisions made on the basis of it going forward I guess Contemplate this on the Tree of Woepic.twitter.com/8Xbz88Cwk4
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